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Weekly Fraser Valley Sport Fishing Column

Weekly Fraser Valley Sport fishing column; Dec 23 to 30, 2013

One Morning at breakfast? I saw an advertisement for "complete aquarium kits' at what seemed a remarkably low price. In an unguarded moment I showed it my wife. "That's something I should have done years ago," I said.

"What?" she asked.

"Get one of those things."

"What on earth for?"

"To watch things? Things from the creeks and the river. Anything and everything. You could set up a whole natural ecology and keep track of it.'

"Do you really think you could?"

I admitted I wasn't sure, but failed to add that I hadn't the slightest intention of trying?

About a month later-Christmas morning, to be exact-I opened a very large package and uncovered by slow degree an aquarium set, complete in every detail as the paper had promised? Roderick Haig-Brown from his book, Fisherman's Fall.

Christmas is two days away and here on the north side of the Fraser Valley, the Dec coho have arrived. It is often a paradox between family responsibilities and fishing. Fish don't wait and neither did the birth of a child so many centuries ago; whose birth is the reason for this festive season. Whether you spend the day in church, with family, with friends, or on the river; we wish you all a Merry Christmas.

The Report

An unexpected cold front blew in and iced over many of our lower mainland lakes; just after we released last weeks column. Barring any unexpected weather, our lower mainland lakes and ponds should be ice free by the weekend. For better success aim for a slow troll or retrieve, close to shore in and around the north east sections of your favorite lake. Try Wooly Bugger, Big Black, Baggy Shrimp, Dragonfly Nymph, or Halfback Nymph.